After a week in Mountain View (where I lost two days to a stupid cold), I'm having a weekend in San Francisco, City of a Thousand Hills. Everytime I visit this city, it has a different feel -- not because it's a different season (it's pretty much always the same). Not because I go to different areas. Just because it's a strange city that hides its ( Read more... )

Mickey and I went shopping on the east side of the Isar today, looking for a couple specialty shops. What we didn't expect to find was a large city library, a great but not pricey supermarket, a possible job opening at a yarn shop, and one of the few English movie theatres - that holds the world record for longest regular showing of Rocky Horror ( Read more... )

Let this be a warning to those who lose their luggage while traveling: Just because you've passed the date where your luggage is considered lost forever doesn't mean you'll get a full reimbursement if the luggage turns up again. Of the about DKK 20000 we spent replenishing our suitcase which arrived almost three months late, our insurance company ( Read more... )

Yes, it sounds like an oxymoron to my ears, but we actually did on the order of six hours of shopping today (mostly within one mall!) and I didn't get horribly exhausted from it. This mostly because we weren't really shopping for our own money, but with the money we'll get from the insurance company for covering our lost luggage. Thus we just ( Read more... )

Shopping is hard - let's do math!

Srsly, shopping is one of the most exhausting things I do regularly. Biking home and work exhausting I can get over by relaxing for a little in the comfy chair (not... The Comfy Chair!), but shopping totally takes it out of me. Must be all the choices, I'm not good at dealing with choice.

Shopping is hard. Let's do math.